Re: Odd paragraph in Wikipedia

Scripsit David Trimboli:

Indeed, I wouldn't want to actually write such code; I was only
interested in whether styling numbers like that were possible somehow.

Why don't you ask the wikipedia author or check his or her other texts or references? Maybe an example of his or hers would illustrate the message.

It looked to me like the passage was saying that a stylesheet designer
could somehow determine whether a quotation should be kept inline or
be made a separate paragraph;

Why don't you ask the wikipedia author or check his or her other texts or references? There must be some idea in his or her mind about the way to do that.

this usually depends on the length of the quotation.

Not really. Inline vs. block quotation is partly a matter of style, partly a matter of structure. It's a decision to be made by the author (of the quoting document), and it affects the overall design of the context. The way in which a quotation is introduced and the way to give credits and citations depend on that.

Returning to the wikipedia "article" that has caused confusion, I hope you got the ironic points. There's no reason to get excited by something mystic-looking in wikipedia, or on a toilet wall. Most probably, it's just crap.

You might consider deleting it, to save others from getting confused. But some fools might put it back.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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